Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are living in this blank white, and for us it's definitely not paradise.

Hattie Morahan

Throughout my life, I've known that if I change my hair, if I change my look, people I know will blank me in the street.

look at the videos, they prove (fill in the blank here).

Andrew Miller

I think the secret is, no matter how good you are Saturday night, on Monday morning you start with a blank page,

Mark Gatiss

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Dan Brown

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Bill Ferguson

Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he described it to his peer group. The police didnt want to talk about the dream, and the next thing, it was a fact. In his initial statements, it was a dream, he wasnt sure about it and they filled in the blanks for him.

I don't think we've ever played a game that ugly. I don't remember ever missing that many point blank shots, making that many turnovers and still having the lead.

John Milton

From the cheerful ways of men / Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair / Presented with a universal blank / Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, / And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm not an NRA member, but that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate shooting blanks out of a machine gun.

Andrew Stanton

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

Albert Finney

It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?'

Arlen Specter

The president of the United States has the fundamental responsibility to protect the country. The president does not have a blank check.

Jimmy Carl Black

When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?

Both teams fought really hard in the second half. Quincy's just so comfortable with what they are doing on offense. We had a couple of 3-pointers and point blank shots that I would liked to have seen fall, but it didn't happen for us.

Anushka Sharma

I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.

Aaron Paul

With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

This was a blanket release of all claims. And I am not in a position to comment on the veracity of the allegations.

Dave Checketts

What's been done in the past I really have no control over. Frankly, I like the fact that we have kind of a blank canvas with some young talent, some very good draft picks and a chance to really build.

We knew if we let them play their game with all the energy they had, it was going to be a long game for us. We just tried to do the same. We put the blanket on them in the neutral zone, and they got frustrated right off the bat.

Rachel Sklar

Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

We are starting with a blank piece of paper, as will be the Americans,

Eleanor Catton

There was a computer in our garage when I was growing up, and I'd go out there in winter and wrap myself in a blanket and write a story.

Before, it was more of a blank stare. Now, he'll turn his eyes to you and look you in the eyes when you talk to him. You can look at his eyes and know if it's him.

A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Corporal punishment is prohibited, but it's not a blanket policy that prohibits an employee from ever touching a student. There are situations when an employee may have to intervene physically in situations such as student fights.

Darin Strauss

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

Don't give them just a blanket and a bowl of soup. Give them housing and services, and eventually that person goes out and gets a job.

Mark Shapiro

Vindication is the last thing I feel, ... The only thing I feel is satisfaction that I am no longer being met with blank stares.

Tim Collins

I've been in this gym for five years, and I could not stand seeing that blank wall up there. Every summer we hold a camp, and I tell the fourth- through eighth-graders, 'Look at that wall, who's going to be the first ones to get their year up there?' Thank goodness we don't have to look at that wall anymore.

Huston Smith

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery.

Charles Krauthammer

I have a horror of the blank page. I simply cannot write on a blank page or screen. Because once I do, I start to fix it, and I never get past the first sentence.

Summer Sanders

Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.